apple vs. adobe?

[M A V I C]

Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
What's Apple's book selection like?

Currently:
Apple -- 60,000 titles
Amazon -- 400,000 titles
Yep. Like Netflix (but in the reverse order), no competition.

Not really a fan of this example [ of Adobe Premiere ] either. It was more of a numbers thing. There wasn't enough Mac users buying Premiere to warrant the development.

Chicken and egg.

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silvarios wrote: People stopped buying Premiere because it was a terrible product. The person I mentioned bought a Mac solely for Final Cut. He didn't stay with Windows and continue to use Premier. Again, seems fair enough to compare, at least with my purely anecodotal example.

Premiere was brought up in this thread and it was alleged Adobe dropped it to "retaliate" against Apple. I'm saying that's not a good example because pulling the plug on a product because people stopped buying it doesn't constitute "retaliation."

silvarios wrote:
I've bought a total of two episodes of Wonder Pets off the iTunes store -- that's all. I watch Netflix streaming content every day. Seems like a fair comparison, at least with my own use.

Netflix has a total of 17,000 videos available to "watch instantly." iTunes has over 55,000 TV shows alone. So no, not a fair comparison.